Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He witnessed most of the final scenes of the Cold War, and was a resident correspondent in the Soviet capital and in Washington, DC. He frequently revisits both Russia and the USA. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday, where he is a columnist and occasional foreign correspondent, reporting most recently from Iran, North Korea, Burma, The Congo and China. He won the journalism category in the 2010 George Orwell Prize for this correspondence.

• I. The Secret Capitulation \ 1. Cannabis is a Cause \ 2. How to Sink Giggling into the Sea \ 3. Psychiatry is Not an Exact Science \ 4. The Real Purpose of Classification \ 5. No Use Appealing to God. Try John Stuart Mill \ 6. Cannabis and Violence \ 7. What about Alcohol and Tobacco then? \ 8. The Cabinet gets it Wrong \ 9. Enter Richard Crosman \ 10. Jim Callaghan's last Stand \ II. The Search for Soma \ 11. Aldous Huxley \ 12. The Left Casts of its Puritan Garments \ 13. The Mysterious Spread of Cannabis \ 14. Jaggerism is Invented \ 15. Bloomsbury Takes Over Britain via the Airwaves \ 16. Steve Adams Steps Up to Explain \ 17. The Long March-Wootton and After \ 18. Widdicombe Unfair \ 19. Lady Runciman - Who is She? \ 20. Legislation on the Beat - Brian Paddick \ 21. The Great Red Herring - Medical Marijuana \ 22. Freeing Up or Freeing Down \ 23. Some Notes on Harm Reduction and Rehabilitation \ 24. The Demoralisation of Britain

Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He witnessed most of the final scenes of the Cold War, and was a resident correspondent in the Soviet capital and in Washington, DC. He frequently revisits both Russia and the USA. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday, where he is a columnist and occasional foreign correspondent, reporting most recently from Iran, North Korea, Burma, The Congo and China. He won the journalism category in the 2010 George Orwell Prize for this correspondence.

• I. The Secret Capitulation \ 1. Cannabis is a Cause \ 2. How to Sink Giggling into the Sea \ 3. Psychiatry is Not an Exact Science \ 4. The Real Purpose of Classification \ 5. No Use Appealing to God. Try John Stuart Mill \ 6. Cannabis and Violence \ 7. What about Alcohol and Tobacco then? \ 8. The Cabinet gets it Wrong \ 9. Enter Richard Crosman \ 10. Jim Callaghan's last Stand \ II. The Search for Soma \ 11. Aldous Huxley \ 12. The Left Casts of its Puritan Garments \ 13. The Mysterious Spread of Cannabis \ 14. Jaggerism is Invented \ 15. Bloomsbury Takes Over Britain via the Airwaves \ 16. Steve Adams Steps Up to Explain \ 17. The Long March-Wootton and After \ 18. Widdicombe Unfair \ 19. Lady Runciman - Who is She? \ 20. Legislation on the Beat - Brian Paddick \ 21. The Great Red Herring - Medical Marijuana \ 22. Freeing Up or Freeing Down \ 23. Some Notes on Harm Reduction and Rehabilitation \ 24. The Demoralisation of Britain

Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He witnessed most of the final scenes of the Cold War, and was a resident correspondent in the Soviet capital and in Washington, DC. He frequently revisits both Russia and the USA. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday, where he is a columnist and occasional foreign correspondent, reporting most recently from Iran, North Korea, Burma, The Congo and China. He won the journalism category in the 2010 George Orwell Prize for this correspondence.

• I. The Secret Capitulation \ 1. Cannabis is a Cause \ 2. How to Sink Giggling into the Sea \ 3. Psychiatry is Not an Exact Science \ 4. The Real Purpose of Classification \ 5. No Use Appealing to God. Try John Stuart Mill \ 6. Cannabis and Violence \ 7. What about Alcohol and Tobacco then? \ 8. The Cabinet gets it Wrong \ 9. Enter Richard Crosman \ 10. Jim Callaghan's last Stand \ II. The Search for Soma \ 11. Aldous Huxley \ 12. The Left Casts of its Puritan Garments \ 13. The Mysterious Spread of Cannabis \ 14. Jaggerism is Invented \ 15. Bloomsbury Takes Over Britain via the Airwaves \ 16. Steve Adams Steps Up to Explain \ 17. The Long March-Wootton and After \ 18. Widdicombe Unfair \ 19. Lady Runciman - Who is She? \ 20. Legislation on the Beat - Brian Paddick \ 21. The Great Red Herring - Medical Marijuana \ 22. Freeing Up or Freeing Down \ 23. Some Notes on Harm Reduction and Rehabilitation \ 24. The Demoralisation of Britain